December 5, 2023
Tens of thousands of people, young and old, filled the streets of Midtown Manhattan under blazing sunshine on Sunday to demand that world leaders quickly pivot away from fossil fuels dangerously heating the Earth. Their ire was sharply directed at President Biden, who arrived in New York Sunday night for several fund-raisers this week and
READ MOREA 1-year-old boy died on Friday and three other children were hospitalized after all four were apparently exposed to an opioid at a state-licensed day care in the Bronx, city officials said. The police said they later found a packaging device typically used by drug dealers there. The New York City medical examiner’s office said
READ MOREnew video loaded: NASA Appoints a U.F.O. Research Director transcript Back transcript NASA Appoints a U.F.O. Research Director NASA said it had hired a director of research to study “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” or U.A.P., after a report recommended the agency do more to investigate the topic. The agency did not share the director’s name. “The
READ MOREThe News The grocery chain Kroger said on Friday that it had agreed to pay about $1.2 billion to states, local governments and Native American tribes to settle claims that its retail pharmacies played a role in fueling the opioid crisis. Kroger, which was accused of improperly monitoring prescriptions of highly addictive painkillers filled in
READ MOREnew video loaded: Japan Sends X-Ray Telescope and Moon Lander Into Space transcript Back transcript Japan Sends X-Ray Telescope and Moon Lander Into Space The two different space missions would help astronomers study the cosmos and aid the development of moon landing technologies. Systems are go. Main engine ignition. Solid boosters ignited. We have a
READ MORESource: Guttmacher Institute Note: Data compares January to June 2023 with a six-month period in 2020. Legal abortions most likely increased in the United States in the first six months of the year compared with 2020, an analysis of new estimates shows, as states with more permissive abortion laws absorbed patients traveling from those with
READ MOREA sharp increase in the number of an invasive species of hornets in Britain is raising concerns that they could threaten native bee populations. There have been 22 sightings of the so-called Asian hornet, or Vespa velutina, this year, more than in the past six years combined, according to British officials. The number of sightings,
READ MOREMarilyn Lovell, who, as an object of fascination for the news media, the inspiration for movie and TV characters and a figure in history books, incarnated for many Americans the hardships and glamour of being an astronaut’s wife, died on Aug. 27 in Lake Forest, Ill. She was 93. Her death was announced by the
READ MORESunset along the Kakhovka Reservoir in central Ukraine, especially in summer, used to be gorgeous: kids played in the shallow water near the shore, men fished and young couples walked under the pine trees as the last traces of sunlight reflected off the water. But after the destruction of a major dam just downriver, that
READ MOREAsk Patricia Anderson how she is doing, and you probably will not get a routine answer. “Today, I’m working and I’m fine,” she said on a recent Tuesday. “Saturday and Sunday, I was bedridden. Long Covid is a roller coaster.” Before the pandemic, Ms. Anderson practiced martial arts and did without a car, instead walking
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